Petition of Barsa Jeshel

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231225 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: [Plymouth, Sandwich?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Barsa JeshelLucy CarterHiley HallJerusha MosesMatty ParsensSilpher RobbinsDorcus WebquishThyer ThomasSolomon JosephJesse CowetPatience CoomesMolly TomsonPatience EdwardsSally ReedJesper HallLundon ThomasSarah LibertySimon ValentineHannah ChummuckZilpah Wheelwright Actions taken on dates: 1808-01-28,1808-01-29 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1808 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1808, read, and concurred Total signatures: 38.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 26 Males of color signatures: 12 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Herring Pond and Black Ground tribe of Indians and proprietors of certain lands lying partly in Plymouth and partly in Sandwich, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Herring Pond Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library. Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: right of self government, lands, act, law Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1807, c.109, passed March 9, 1808